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19:06, 25 January 2008

Russians ask IOC not to admit Sochi Olympic construction in reserve territories

Residents of 12 subjects of the Russian Federation have addressed the International Olympic Committee with a request not to allow erection of Olympic objects in the Grushevy Ridge and within buffer zone of the Caucasian Reserve. The appeal was signed by 6,074 persons.

19:04, 25 January 2008

Jury acquits suspects of murdering Armenian near Moscow

Jurymen have completely acquitted the defendants in the murder case of Arthur Sardaryan, 19, a native of Armenia, who was killed in a Moscow suburb on the motive of nationalist hostility.

18:25, 25 January 2008

Armenia demands disclosing student's murder in Moscow

The authorities of Armenia demand an immediate investigation into the murder of Armenian student Vladimir Karamdzhan, who was attacked by a mob of unidentified teenagers in Moscow and later died from received knife wounds.

18:19, 25 January 2008

Human rights centre of Kabardino-Balkaria starts its website

The Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre has started its Internet website at zapravakbr.com.

18:15, 25 January 2008

Human rights activists believe that special operation in Ingushetia aims to hamper the opposition rally

The announcement of a part of Ingushetian territory to be zone of counterterrorist operation is aimed to hamper the rally of the opposition planned for January 26 in Nazran - this is the opinion of human rights activists.

18:09, 25 January 2008

Property of "Imedi" TV Company arrested in Georgia

Court of Tbilisi has seized the property of the "Imedi" TV Company, where businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili is the founder, and which had planned to restart broadcasting since January 28.

23:29, 24 January 2008

Sochi OMON commanders deny the guilt of their subordinates of beating tourists

Commanders of Sochi OMON deny the guilt of their subordinates of beating in summer 2006 young men in the territory of children's summer camp "Druzhba".

23:25, 24 January 2008

5,000 Russians demand choosing another place for sleigh-bobsleigh track in Sochi

On January 23, the Greenpeace delegation handed over to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne lists with 5,000 signatures of the Russians who demand to transfer the Sochi Olympic sleigh-bobsleigh track to another place.

23:18, 24 January 2008

Lawyer Aliev: nobody knows how European Court's decisions on Azerbaijan are enforced

The European Court for Human Rights has passed 11 decisions against Azerbaijan, however, the legal community of the country possesses no official information on whether the Azerbaijani government fulfils these decisions or not.

23:08, 24 January 2008

Azerbaijani tax officials inspect opposition's printing houses

For several days in a row, tax services of Azerbaijan are examining the publishing house "Chap Evi" (House of Press).

23:04, 24 January 2008

Court of Beslan to consider issue of pensions to parents of perished children

Today, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has obliged the Pravoberezhny Court of the city of Beslan to consider the suit of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization claiming to appoint pensions to the parents of the children-victims of the terror act.

23:00, 24 January 2008

Access to Internet stopped in Ingushetia on the eve of opposition rally

On the eve of the rally of the opposition against corruption, kidnappings and unlawful executions, planned for January 26, two Ingushetian Internet providers - the Closed Joint-Stock Company "ITT" and the Limited Liability Company "Telecom" - have received orders today to stop the service of connecting their clients to the Internet.

22:49, 24 January 2008

Most complaints against Russia in the Strasbourg Court are on events in Chechnya

The report of the European Court for Human Rights published on January 23 notes that last year the Court revealed 175 facts of human rights violations in Russia.

22:44, 24 January 2008

Main reasons of November 2007 catastrophe in Kerch Strait announced

The Russian Ministry of Transportation has announced that the principal causes of vessels' destruction in the Kerch Strait in November 2007 were complicated weather conditions and poor control over navigation safety.

13:05, 23 January 2008

Residents of Makhachkala block Imam Shamil Avenue

In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, today starting from 5 p.m., local residents have blocked traffic along the Imam Shamil Avenue in protest against electricity cut-offs.

13:01, 23 January 2008

Khidasheli: OSCE is rather critical in assessing the presidential election in Georgia

Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the Republican Party of Georgia and representative of the United Opposition, believes that in reality the OSCE's estimates of the election was critical enough, but because of tendentious presenting the Georgian television this criticism was somehow lost.

12:55, 23 January 2008

Human Rights Watch concerned with trial of "Voice of Beslan"

The International Human Rights Watch Organization has expressed its anxiety with the pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization, in whose materials the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia has revealed extremist information.

12:34, 23 January 2008

Contract soldiers from Dagestan protest against nationality-motivated dismissals

On January 22, over two hundred Dagestanians-contract soldiers from the military units deployed in Khankala held a picket in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in protest against their nationality-motivated dismissals.

12:01, 23 January 2008

Militants planned terror act at rally in Ingushetia

According to today's information of Svetlana Gorbakova, senior assistant to the head of the investigatory department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, the explosive that blew up in a car on January 22 in Nazran (Ingushetia) was intended for the rally to be held on January 26.

12:52, 22 January 2008

Armenians of Krasnodar Territory demand from Turkish authorities to solve Hrant Dink's murder

On January 20, a meeting of leaders of a number of Armenian NGOs of the Krasnodar Territory was held in Tenginka village of the Tuapse District. The meeting was in memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos" published in Turkey who was killed one year ago.

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